mccFeb 5, 2025

Hello EU people:

There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.

Show threadmccFeb 5, 2025
Note: Above post is also heads up Ireland https://hachyderm.io/@kanongil/113952584253412845
Gil Pedersen (@[email protected])

@[email protected] You missed Ireland at >50%

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Show threadmccFeb 14, 2025

In the time since I linked the petition* above, Ireland has gone from under 50% to above the threshold! Spain is also now getting very close.

https://siorc.eu/notes/a4885f3ath9b00pu

The petition is up overall 26,000 votes in the last ten days. I don't know whether it can hit a million by May, but turning more countries green definitely sounds viable.

* The petition asks the EU to ban pseudo-psychological practices purporting to "convert" gay and trans people to straights. Yes, that's a thing, and it's cruel.

Caitríona :v_tb: :verified_bottom: (@cait)

I think other countries should follow what Ireland has done, we were spamming the petition on the #MastoDaoine hashtag and on BSky the #SpéirGhorm hashtag and that saw us shoot up from like 45% to 100+% RN: Hello EU people: There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.

Siorc
Show threadGeorgiana BrummellFeb 14, 2025
@mcc I can't believe something so disgusting, not to mention completely unscientific and false, is being done in the twenty-first century! Naturally, I boosted this.
Show threadmccFeb 14, 2025
@dandylover1 I don't have any information about to what extent it is happening in Europe today. When we banned it in California there were people offering it as parts of normal psychiatric services (when I lived in CA we didn't ban it proper, just outlawed it being done by anyone who is licensed as or advertising themselves as offering health services)
Show threadGeorgiana Brummell
@mcc The mere thought of anyone, so-called professional or not, trying to do that makes me feel sick.
Feb 14, 2025 at 10:16pmWeb